ibook 900 startx failure
X does not want to play. I have been fighting this for days and getting nowhere. If anyone can help I would be most grateful.
The first thing to mention is that under OSX the machine had been persuaded to do dual head as detailed by: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html . Having been unable to get X up and running, however, I have reset this in an attempt to ease things along.
lspci gives: 00:10:0 VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies....
So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0, and implement the other apparently sensible settings. An attempt to startx then throws up at the end of the log file:
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:10:0
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:16:0) found
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Where the heck's 0:16:0 coming from? Well, it occurred to me that it might just be the other output so I changed XF86Config-4 accordingly and this time got no errors in the log files but, after a quick flick of the display and a gurgle from the HDD, a blank black screen instead of any form of X. I tried again with the system plugged in to an external monitor but this did not show anything either.
Am I just being stupid here and is there a simple solution? I hope so because otherwise I will be forced to switch back to OSX again.
Thanks in advance,
Adrian.
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